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Little is known about the physical and mental health impact of exposure to landscape fire smoke in women with asthma. This study examined the health impacts and information-seeking behaviours of women with asthma exposed to the 2019/2020 Australian fires, including…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: asthma, Australia, landscape fire, bushfire, pregnancy, pregnant women, breastfeeding women, mental health, symptoms
Background
Smoke from wildfires is a growing public health risk due to the enormous amount of smoke-related pollution that is produced and can travel thousands of kilometers from its source. While many studies have documented the physical health harms of wildfire smoke, less is…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, landscape fire, bushfire, haze, mental health, well-being, scoping review
Wildfire season is getting longer and more severe. The fires send smoky gases and fine particles of burnt matter drifting through the atmosphere, and their harm can be felt by lungs miles away. It’s plain that wildfire smoke is harmful, and studies have linked smoke inhalation…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, human health, organic aerosols, health effects, inhalation
The chemical composition of particulate matter (PM) in biomass-burning smoke evolves upon aging in the atmosphere. The effect of this evolution on the toxicity of biomass-burning PM is understudied. Here, we burned oak foliage, pine needles, and hickory twigs in an environmental…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildland fires, wildfires, organic aerosols, atmospheric aging, toxicity, apoptosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, PM - particulate matter, human health, inhalation
Join project staff and members of the committee for a public release webinar about the new report, The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface on Tuesday, September 20th from 3:00PM to 4:00PM EDT. The committee will share information about their findings and…
Person: Allen, Lowry, Adetona, Holder, Rosario-Ortiz, Turpin
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: public health, wildfires, fire chemistry, communities at risk, air quality, water quality
Recent extreme wildfire events (EWE) in Australia, the United States of America (USA), Greece and Portugal highlighted the seriousness of wildfire smoke impacts on society. Nowadays, about 2000 premature deaths occur annually in the USA due to chronic wildfire smoke exposure,…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: EWE - extreme wildfire event, smoke dispersion, Portugal, public health, smoke exposure, air quality, air pollution
Health status depends on multiple genetic and non-genetic factors. Nonheritable factors (such as lifestyle and environmental factors) have stronger impact on immune responses than genetic factors. Firefighters work is associated with exposure to air pollution and heat stress, as…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: air pollution, firefighters, smoke exposure, immune response, respiratory infections
We undertake a nationwide US study to estimate how mega-fires (defined as wildfires >100,000 acres in size) affect short-term infant health outcomes in communities located within the flame zone. This is the first study to look exclusively at mega-fires, which have unique…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: megafires, mega-fires, indirect effects, health impacts, infant health, flame zone
We examined whether discretionary use of an N95 mask reduced symptom reporting in wildland firefighters. The study collected data from two Canadian provinces during the 2021 fire season, with each firefighter followed for up to 4 rotations. Participants completed questionnaires…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildland firefighters, respiratory symptoms, respiratory protection, N95 masks, Intervention, Canada, N95 respirator
Climate change is accelerating the intensity and frequency of wildfires globally. Understanding how wildfire smoke (WS) may lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes and alterations in placental function via biological mechanisms is critical to mitigate the harms of exposure. We aim to…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air pollution, pregnancy, wildfire, placenta, toxicology, perinatal outcomes, climate change, pregnancy, obstetrics, preterm birth, fetal growth, birth weight, reproduction, inflammation, epigenetics, oxidative stress, endocrine, metabolism, hormones, vascular, vasculogenesis, hypertension, PM2.5, PM10, PM - particulate matter
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: climate change, fire-adapted communities, fireshed, forest health, fuel treatment, ignition, land management, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), resilience, wildfires, Wildfire Crisis Strategy, trusted communicators, shared stewardship, equity, ITEK - Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge
The physical and mental health impacts of wildfires are wide-ranging. We assessed associations between exposure to wildfire smoke and self-reported symptoms affecting mental health among adults living in Oregon. We linked by interview date and county of residence survey…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: mental health, Oregon, smoke exposure, depression, anxiety, epidemiology, wildfire, surveillance
[from the text] While bushfires have long been a part of Australia's ecosystem, the 2019–20 bushfires were an unprecedented event leading to 5.5 million hectares of land being affected in New South Wales (NSW) alone.1 This is approximately the same as the area burnt in the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bushfires, asthma, children, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, 2019/2020 Australian wildfires, air quality, smoke exposure
Major wildfires and heatwaves have begun to increase in frequency throughout much of the United States, particularly in western states such as California, causing increased risk to public health. Air pollution is exacerbated by both wildfires and warmer temperatures, thus adding…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: climate change, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, heatwaves, air pollution, PurpleAir, compound risk, public health, environmental justice
The “Black Summer” bushfires of 2019/2020 in Australia generated smoke that persisted for over three months, mainly affecting Eastern Australia. Most communication strategies focused on the fire itself, revealing a knowledge gap in effective communication of the impact of…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: health literacy, human health, wildfires, bushfires, Australia, Black Summer fires, children
Background and Aims
As average temperatures rise and wildfire events increase in the United States, outdoor workers may be at an increased risk of injury. Recent research suggests that heat exposure increases outdoor workers' risk of traumatic injuries, but co-exposures of heat…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, climate change, heat, occupational injuries, outdoor workers, workers' compensation, Oregon
Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing land management practices. Many of these fires occur at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), areas where development and wildland areas overlap and which are…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
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Climate change impacts and rapid development in the wildland-urban interface are increasing population exposure and vulnerability to the harmful effects of wildfire and wildfire smoke. The direct and indirect effects of these hazards may impact future mobility decisions among…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: climate migration, risk perception, personal experience, wildfire, threat appraisal, migration intentions, mitigation
In many parts of the developing world, farmers widely use deliberate fires to burn vegetation and clear land to plant crops. These agricultural fires, however, are known to be associated with health costs due to increased air pollution. We contribute to underpinning the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: India, air pollution, agricultural fires, cardiovascular health, hypertension
Exposure to biomass smoke has been associated with a wide range of acute and chronic health outcomes. Over the past decades, the frequency and intensity of wildfires has increased in many areas, resulting in longer smoke episodes with higher concentrations of fine particulate…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass smoke, exposure assessment, machine learning, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CanOSSEM - Canadian Optimized Statistical Smoke Exposure Model, Canada, air pollution
Traffic models can be used to study evacuation scenarios during wildland-urban interface fires and identify the ability of a community to reach a safe place. In those scenarios, wildfire smoke can reduce visibility conditions on the road. This can have serious implications on…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: evacuation traffic modelling, wildfire, driving speed, optical density, evacuation, visibility
Declining ambient PM2.5 concentrations have been attributed to fuel consumption standards and emission controls of secondary sulfate and nitrate aerosol precursors from transportation and industrial sectors. As a result, the relative contribution of PM2.5 sources is modified,…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fine particles, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, transportation, air quality, megacities, wildfires
Excessive warming from climate change has increased the total wildfire burned area over the past several decades in California. This has increased population exposure to both hazardous concentrations of air pollutants from fires such as fine particulate matter (smoke PM2.5) and…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: climate change, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, health impacts, air quality, extreme heat, heat index, public health
Pollution from wildfires constitutes a growing source of poor air quality globally. To protect health, governments largely rely on citizens to limit their own wildfire smoke exposures, but the effectiveness of this strategy is hard to observe. Using data from private pollution…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: smoke exposure, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, air quality, public response, Google search, socio-economic factors, public health
Wildfires pose a major health risk for humans, wildlife, and domestic animals. We previously discovered pathophysiologic parallels between domestic cats with naturally occurring smoke inhalation and thermal burn injuries and human beings with similar injuries; these were…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: hypercoaguability, primary hemostasis , PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, HCM - hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, thromboembolism, domestic cats, wildfires